Author: mikey
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Jetpack Related Posts and Custom Post Types
There is not much documentation out there about adding Jetpack’s Related Posts to your own Custom Post Types, so I thought I’d share how to do it!
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Toggle hidden files with Alfred
Very easy and quick way to toggle hidden files on a Mac using Alfred. Download the workflow here
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Desk: A nice (but expensive) distraction-free writing experience
Desk is a new publishing app for OS X. With Desk, you can publish from your desktop to your WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, Squarespace, Movable Type (is that still around?), Typepad, and even Facebook Notes. You are a storyteller, passionate about crafting narratives that capture, express, and delight in what it means to be human. Desk is built…
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Mikey’s Plugin List: Broken Link Checker
Welcome to Mikey’s Plugin List – my own curated list of plugins that I love and use. Broken Link Checker Download Description: This plugin will check your posts, comments and other content for broken links and missing images, and notify you if any are found. Pretty basic but super useful. It goes through your entire…
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WordPress Snippet: show all child pages of a page
Here is a pretty handy snippet that will display all the child pages of the current page: <?php $children = wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&child_of=’.$post->ID.’&echo=0′); if ($children) { ?> <ul> <?php echo $children; ?> </ul> <?php } ?>
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Why I need to learn Grunt
Chris Coyier of css-tricks.com and codepen.io fame has an excellent article about using Grunt. Grunt for People Who Think Things Like Grunt are Weird and Hard via 24 Ways. I had heard about Grunt for a while, but I didn’t feel like yet another tool would make my workflows that much better. After testing it…
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Quickly see pixel dimensions on a Mac with Quicklook
Via Cult of Mac Update: Currently not working on Mavericks. I can’t even count how many times a day I have to check image dimensions, image sizes, and my current solution currently requires using the Finder to see the document details about each file. That gets too time consuming, especially when I’m doing it all…
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A curated list of the best WordPress plugins
Tidyrepo.com claims to be a curated list of “the best and most reliable WordPress plugins”. I’ve used almost all of these plugins and can attest to the fact that yes, they got it right. The only thing I would say is that some of their plugins (Gravity Forms, WP DB Migrate Pro) are paid plugins…